Lot 249
  • 249

Raleigh, Walter, Sir

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description

  • The Cabinet-Council: Containing the Cheif Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State; Discabineted In Political and Polemical Aphorisms, grounded on Authority, and Experience; And illustrated with choicest Examples and Historical Observations …. Published by John Milton, Esq. London: Thomas Newcomb for Thomas Johnson, 1658
  • paper, ink, leather
12mo (5 5/8/ x 3 5/8 in.; 143 x 93 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Robert Vaughan; ink inscription in French at head of title.  Old Spanish calf gilt; rebacked.  Morocco gilt pull-off case.

Literature

Wing R156; ESTC R8392; Pforzheimer 817; Sabin 67599

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue, but with page 123 correctly numbered (c.f. Pforzheimer). While the attribution to Raleigh has been questioned, the present work remains of immense interest for English political theory.